Clothes-rack



" L. B. WELLS.

CLOTHES RACK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 10. 19:91.

1,372,580. Patented Mar. 22,1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

L LLIn BELL WELLS, or nMAnIL o, 'rnxns.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LILLIE BELL WELLS, a citizen of the United States, residin at Amarillo, in the county of Potter 'and tate of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Racks, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes racks and more particularly to an improved device which may be used in the home for hanging clothes to be dried when inclement weather prevents drying of the clothes out of doors.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a simple and cheaply constructed device which may be readily set up and which, when not in use, may have its various parts assembled in a compact form whereby the device may be stored in a minimum space.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which consists of comparatively few parts and is simple inconstruction but durable and well adapted to withstand the rough usage to which devices of this character are ordinarily subjected.

For a full description of the invention and the advantages and merits thereof, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly broken away showing the device constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation.

Referring to the drawings, wherein is illustrated the preferred form of my invention, in which like or corresponding numerals represent like parts throughout the several views, the standards 1 and 2 are each provided with base plates 3, which as shown in Fig. 2, are substantially square so that the upright posts will have sufiicient stability to maintain them in an upright position when the device is in use. Fastening elements 4; are used to secure the base plates to the standards at the lower ends thereof.

Each standard is provided with a plurality of transverse openings 5 and these receive a single cable or rope 6. One end of the cable is knotted as indicated at 7 andthe opposite end of the cable is then successively threaded through the various openings in both of the standards to provide a plurality of laterally extending strands 8 upon which Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 10, 1919.

CLOTHES-RACK.

PatentedMar.

Serial No. 289,073. 1

the clothes may. be hung. Obviously any number of strands 8 may be provided by merely increasing the number of openings 5 in the standards and threading the cable through the same in the manner shown. The upper ends of the standards are braced by a brace rod 9 which has the right angularly extended fingers 10 adapted to be lodged in recesses 11 formed in the upper end of the standards. This brace rod is readily removable and may be quickly mounted in position when the device is set up. Near the lower ends of the standards, approximately midway between the lowermost opening 5 and the plate 3 in each standard, is an eyelet 12, these being secured to the uprights on their adjacent faces so that the eyelets extend toward each other. A lower brace rod 13 provided with right angularly extending fingers 14 is mounted in the eyelets 12, the fingers 14 being exmerely necessary to remove the upper brace rod 9 and the lower brace rod 13. Then by grasping one of the ends of the cable, the

same may be pulled and drawn outwardly until the two standards are moved into contact with each other. The brace rods 9 and 13 may then be placed parallel with and against the standard whereupon the cable may be wrapped around the parts thus assembled to hold them in assembled relation while the device is notin use. In this manner a compact device occupying a small space is provided. To assemble the device it is merely necessary to pull the standards apart so that the strands 8 will be pulled taut, whereupon they will be held taut by placing the brace members 9 and 13 in position and the brace members will effectively hold the standards 1 and 2 in properly spaced relation in order that the cables or strands 8 will be held sufliciently taut to support the clothes hung upon them. Obviously the braces 9 and 13 may also be employedto hang clothes upon.

The foregoing description and accom panying drawings have reference to what might be considered to be the approved or preferred form of my invention. I desire it to be understood that I may make such changes in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, material dimenslons, et cetera, as may prove expedlent and fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by a supporting base, a recessed upper end, and

an eyelet in proximity to its supportlng base, a flexible clothes line repeatedly stretched from one standard to the other, to

provide separate supporting strands therebetween, and lndependent, removable bracing rods, having bent ends associated with the 15 standards for sustaining them in relatively spaced vertical relatlon, one rod being 111- sertible between the standards, with its bent ends seated in the recessed upper ends of the latter and the other rod insertible between 20 the standards with its bent ends respectively engaged within the eyelet of the same.

In testimony whereof I afiix m si nature.

LILLIE BELL viiilLs. 

